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Well you can open your Bible to Mark chapter 2 as we continue our study of this wonderful account of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. Mark chapter 2, we're going to be looking at verses 13 to 17, but we're not going to get there for just a minute. I want to set it up a little bit in your thinking.
One of the things we always like to do is to think biblically, to get back into the context of Scripture and sometimes that's a bit of a transition. Sometimes trying to get us out of this world, the way this world thinks and the way things exist in perspective in this world may be very different from the ancient world. And sometimes we can make the contrast to help us back into biblical mind set. Let me approach that this way.
Let's imagine for the sake of illustration that the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, the Savior, the Messiah had come into the world in our time, to our country in the year 2009. He had come for the reason that He came then, to be a sacrifice for sin. If indeed He had come at this time in this place, to die, He would have been killed for the opposite reason that He was killed in first century Israel...the very opposite reason.
Then and there in first century Israel, He was rejected, He was despised, He was hated and He was murdered. And the reason? He was not religious enough. That was the reason. By standards of the Jewish religious leaders, predominantly the Pharisees, He was not holy enough...if holy at all. He was not righteous enough, if righteous at all. He was not demanding enough, He was not legalistic enough, He was not condemning enough. He was not tolerable...intolerant enough. He was not judgmental enough. He was not separatistic enough. He was sub-par to a dominantly religious world view.
Now if Jesus came today to our country in our time, He would be way too holy, far too righteous, too demanding, too legalistic, too condemning, too intolerant, too judgmental and far too separatistic. And our generation would kill Him for that...the very opposite, two different perspectives, two different societies in two different times. Our culture is highly secular and extremely immoral. Their culture was highly religious and extremely moral.
We would hate Jesus for condemning good people. They hated Him for forgiving bad people. The Jewish leaders very soon into our Lord's ministry began to develop a deadly hatred for Him. The motive was the very thing I just said, He was not holy enough. In fact, He was so unholy that they conclude that He did what He did by the power of Satan. He was so unholy that He was energized by hell itself.
They condensed this viewpoint down into a mantra and they called Him with scorn, "the friend of sinners." That was the worst they could say about Him. That was the most scornful epithet they could come up with. The friend, in fact, of tax collectors and sinners. We will read that in Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34.
Why did they conclude that? Because He seemed so welcoming to the people who were sinners. He seemed so comfortable with the people that they deemed to be Satan's people. And so the ultimate scorn that they could heap on Jesus from the perch of their sanctimonious self-righteousness was that He was the friend of sinners. He cannot possibly be the Messiah if He has a lower standard of righteousness than we do, if He has a lower standard of separation, legalism, holiness, etc., etc., than we do. He can't be the Messiah.
This was the problem. Jesus wasn't even as loyal to God, to the Law of God, as they were, how could He possibly be their Savior? In Luke chapter 7 and verse 36, "One of the Pharisees was requesting Jesus to dine with Him. He entered the Pharisee's house, reclined at the table. There was a woman in the city who was a sinner, a prostitute, no doubt, an immoral woman, and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and began wiping them with the hair of her head and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume. Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, 'If this man were a prophet, He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him. But she is a sinner.'"
Unthinkable, absolutely unthinkable that He would come close to a sinner or allow a sinner to come close to Him. In the fifteenth chapter of Luke, "All the tax collectors and sinners were coming near Him, to listen to Him. Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying, 'This man receives sinners and eats with them.'"
This was the issue that led to the rejection of Jesus. The outrage was t he one who claimed to be the most holy and the most righteous, Son of God. The one who claimed to be the Lord of heaven and the Messiah was comfortable with sinners. Separation defined the Pharisees. Never were they willing to be in the company of sinners. In fact, the rabbis used to say, "You don't even go near a sinner, even so much as to teach that sinner the Law." The parable of Luke 18 where the Pharisee and the tax collector go to the temple to pray. The Pharisee stands and prays like this, to himself, by the way, it says. "God, I thank You that I'm not like other people, swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector." There was nothing but disdain for sinners, the category of sinners. Jesus was so comfortable with sinners.
In a word, my friends, this was the scandal of Jesus' life. This was the scandal of His ministry, He was the friend of sinners. You can call it the scandal of the friendship of sinners, or you can call it just the scandal of grace. Jesus welcomed penitent sinners and Jesus rejected impenitent self-righteous Pharisees.
Now, of course, this is the glory of the gospel, is it not? This is the glory of the gospel, that God receives sinners. That's the glory of the gospel. Paul lays that out in the heart of the letter to the Romans. In chapter 3, for example, and verse 25, it tells us that God made Christ a propitiation through His blood, that provides a sacrifice that satisfies God, received through faith, it says, through faith. Verse 26 adds then that God becomes the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Justification, or salvation, comes to the one who has faith in Jesus.
Down in chapter 4, verse 5, it says, "He justifies the ungodly because His faith is credited as righteousness." So God justifies the one who has faith, who recognizes that He is Himself ungodly. God justifies the ungodly who has faith. Chapter 5 of Romans, verse 6, "While we were still helpless, at the right time Jesus died...here's the key verse...for the ungodly." He didn't die for the godly, He died for the ungodly. He justifies the ungodly. That's the gospel.
The glory of the gospel is not that God gives salvation to the people who earn it, or He gives salvation to the people who achieve it, or the people who are good enough, or righteous enough, or holy enough, but He gives salvation to the ungodly and the unholy and the unrighteous who believe in Christ and repent. This is the scandal of grace and it scandalizes every works/righteousness system in existence. It is the difference between the true gospel and all other religions.
Now the passage before us focuses on the scandal of friendship with sinners. This gets us really to the core, the essence of the gospel. Let's begin in verse 13. Speaking of Jesus, it says, "He went out again by the seashore and all the people were coming to Him and He was teaching them. As He passed by, He saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax booth and He said to him, 'Follow Me.' And he got up and followed Him. And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house...Levi's house...and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many of them and they were following Him. When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, 'Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?' And hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'"
Therein, dear friends, lies the scandal of the gospel, the scandal of grace, the scandal of friendship with sinners. It is all summed up in that final statement at the end of verse 17, "I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners." The only people who can enter heaven, the only people who can be received by God, the only people who can be received into His glorious Kingdom, the only people who are given salvation are not the people who earn it, but the people who are self-defined and divinely defined sinners. He justifies the ungodly. That's the message of the gospel.
He came to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 5:32 where the same story is recorded in Luke 5:27 to 32, says, "He came to call sinners to repentance." He can save only sinners who repent and believe in Jesus. By the way, the story is also included in Matthew 9:9 to 13, it's an important enough account that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all record it because it gives us the essence of the glory of the gospel.
Now remember the last verses that we looked at, verses 1 to 12, gave us the account of the man who was healed of paralysis. You remember his friends lowered him through the roof. They took the roof apart and dropped him down into the house, probably the house of Peter and Andrew where Jesus was teaching and Jesus healed him and more importantly Jesus forgave his sins. Said, "Your sins are forgiven," which threw the Jewish leaders into an outrage because only God can forgive sin, and since Jesus did forgive sin and proved He was God by healing the man, they should have affirmed that He in fact was God and did what He had the right to do. But that story, verses 1 to 12, gives the account of Jesus' authority to forgive sins. Now the next story, the one I just read, tells you whose sins He forgives...whose sins He forgives. He forgives the sins of those who are self-confessed sinners. He came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
So the essence of believing in Christ is believing, first of all, that you are a sinner, hopeless, not redeemable by any of your own works. That's a hard sell to people steeped in works/religion. That's why when Jesus preached that same message a little before this, Luke 4 records the account in the town of Nazareth, they tried to kill Him. The first sermon He tried to preach in His hometown, they tried to throw Him off a cliff. They weren't about to acknowledge themselves as sinners and He was speaking in the synagogue. People in the synagogue weren't sinners, they were righteous, they were holy in their own minds. They had bought into the Pharisees apostate form of Judaism...the religion of works and righteousness by human effort.
This has always been the gospel message. We're very familiar with it. The Christian faith is not for good people, it's for people who know they're bad. Salvation is not for people who think they are righteous, it is for the people who know they're not righteous. It's for people who hunger and thirst after righteousness, not people who think they've achieved it.
So our Lord's gospel ministry as any gospel ministry since is concentrated on those who know they are sinners, admit they are sinners, desire forgiveness and turn to Christ, the only source of forgiveness, the only one who has the right to forgive. Well in apostate Judaism in the first century where you earned your salvation, this kind of grace, this friendship with sinners was an outrage and threatened, really, to bring their whole system down, it was so opposed to it. So they hated Jesus and they're already early in His ministry formulating a way to get rid of Him before He brings the collapse of their system down on their heads.
We learn then in verses 1 to 12 that He has the authority to forgive sin, and here we learn who it is that He forgives. Now let's get in to the story.
First of all, with the call of Levi...the call of Levi. A little bit of a background in verse 13, "He went out again." He went out of what? Well He went out of the house that He was in when He healed the paralytic. That's in Capernaum, His headquarter town, the town where Peter and Andrew lived and had a house...most likely He had been in that house teaching, doing healing miracles, and there it was that He healed the paralytic who came down through the roof. He went out again by the seashore, again because He did this very, very often. Much of His teaching was outdoors because they couldn't confine the crowd to a house and that was the reason He left the house on this occasion. It was already so jammed they couldn't get the man who was paralyzed anywhere inside the house, that's why they lowered him through the ceiling, and Jesus left the house not to avoid the people but so that the crowd could get larger. He left the house with the purpose of going by the seashore, literally along the lake edge, the Lake of Galilee, and all the people were coming to Him and He was teaching them. That is the reason He left the house. He went out of that house, along the Lake shore to a place with no boundaries, where all that wanted to come could come. This, of course, was what He wanted to do back in chapter 1 verse 38, let's go somewhere else to the towns nearby so that I may preach there also, for that is what I came for.
And what did He preach? Back in chapter 1 verse 14, it says, "He came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, the Kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel." That's what He preached. He preached the gospel of salvation and forgiveness of sin, the gospel of the hope of heaven, the gospel that involved entering in to the Kingdom of salvation, the Kingdom of God. He did what He always did, He preached salvation through repentance and faith in the gospel...faith in Him. So that's what He was doing and He went by the lakeshore as He did many, many times because more people could come.
Now, He has something in mind, however, as this event subsides, it appears as though He moves back toward Capernaum. It tells us in verse 14, "As He passed by...as He moved away." He's leaving the scene by the lakeshore where He has done this teaching and no doubt had done some healing as well. Back in chapter 1 verse 39, He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons. So maybe even that very event on the lakeshore involved healings and the casting out of demons as well as teaching because He under-wrote, as it were, or gave credence of His message by the power of His miracles over t he physical world and the supernatural world, disease and demons. So He did what He did all the time.
And when it was done, He moves away. And then the story gets very interesting. He saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth and He said to him, "Follow Me." And he got up and followed Him.
Now this is shocking. This is really, really shocking, because this one is a tax collector. This one is a tax collector. This is scandalous beyond comprehension. No self-respecting teacher of any kind would want anything to do with a tax collector. It would literally be the biggest stain on anyone's career to have a follower and an intimate who was a tax collector. That was the worst of the worst, the dregs of human society in Israel.
Now the proximity of these two stories leads me to believe they happened in sequence. Luke 5:27 says, "After that..." Matthew 9 verse 9 says, "Passed on from there." So immediately after the healing of the paralytic, He goes down to the shore, He does the teaching and immediately as He heads back to Capernaum, He walks by this tax booth and He does the unthinkable. If by chance some tax collector became a follower of a teacher, the teacher would do everything he possibly could to get rid of him. No self-respecting teacher, no self-respecting person would want to call a tax collector into his intimate company. No self-respecting person would want a tax collector as a friend.
But Jesus was different. Jesus shattered all the stereo types. As He goes back toward Capernaum, He passes the first toll station. Very possibly, kind of a major toll station on the road from the tetrarchy of Philip which was a small tetrarchy, or the region of Decapolis, a little further south and east, into the tetrarchy of Herod Antipas. And when you cross the border into that tetrarchy or the category where Herod Antipas rules, there's a tax station there, like a border tax station. This would be the main road from Damascus, a great city in the east, through Capernaum headed toward the Mediterranean, and right along that road there was a tax booth.
The Romans dominated that part of the world. They literally ruled by shear force and power in the land of Israel. There were some puppet kings like Herod Antipas and Philip. They were beholding to Rome for their position and they were in league with Rome, so perhaps a combination of the Romans and Herod Antipas worked the tax system in the tetrarchy of Herod Antipas.
The way it worked was, Rome offered tax franchises and they were sold to the highest bidder. So you had to have some money to get one and once you got one, it was just a way to make a fortune. Now sitting in this tax booth is a man named Levi. He is named, obviously for one of Jacob's sons, a son born to Leah, so he's Jewish, obviously, which means he sold his soul to the Romans for money. The Romans are idolaters, the Romans are hated by the Jews. They are Gentiles, they are unclean. They despise them. There's a general hatred for Herod Antipas as well because he's a non-Jew. And here is someone who has sold his soul to these Gentiles, these unclean for the sake of extorting money out of Jews.
If you were a tax collector, you were the worst of the worst of the worst. Now this man, his father's name is Alphaeus, we don't know anymore about him. That's a common name. Two of the disciples had a father named Alphaeus, but it's such a common name, it wouldn't be necessarily the same Alphaeus. But you don't know this man is Levi, you know him as Matthew because in the account in Matthew, Matthew writing the account in Matthew, calls himself Matthew.
How did his name get from Levi to Matthew? I don't know, we don't have any record in the Scripture. My guess is that Matthew changed his name. I mean, if you had been a tax collector, it might be good for your future to alter your identity. It might save your hide. And if he did choose his own name, he chose well, it means gift of the Lord...for he had been given a gift of the Lord in the gift of salvation.
So this is Matthew. In all the accounts which list the Twelve, there is no Levi, there's only a Matthew. Now Jesus comes along, sees this guy named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and I just want you to see how cryptic this is. He said to him, "Follow Me." That's it. That is it. I mean, there's no explanation. There's none. You know, it's the same as we saw back in chapter 1 verses 16 to 20, follow Me, I'll make you fishers of men, and they left their nets, followed Him.
Going a little further, He came to James and John, did the same thing. They went away, followed Him. Just this "follow Me," they drop everything, they follow Him.
Now this is an explicit command and it is immediately obeyed. The commands assume something. What it assumes is that Jesus knows his heart, right? John 2:25, "Nobody needed to tell Jesus what was in the heart of a man because He knew what was in the heart of a man," omniscience. He knew it was in his heart.
Now remember, Capernaum is Jesus' home base. This guy's a high-profile resident of Capernaum. He has heard Jesus preach. He's well aware of His power, well aware of His message. It has found a place in His heart. He is a repenter by the work of God. He is a believer by the work of God. He has a heart that the Lord has changed. Jesus knows that. This is an illustration of omniscience. And He says, "Follow Me."
Now I can tell you this, Matthew must have been shocked, he must have been absolutely shocked that this Jesus knew what he desired, and the response? He followed Him. Luke 5:28 says, "He forsook everything." Now if you had been a fisherman, you could always go back. He fished there for anybody who could catch them, right? He could always go back and be a fisherman. But once you walked away from your tax franchise, believe me, the vultures sitting on the brink waiting to take over, would take over and there wouldn't be anything to go back to.
So when Luke adds, "He forsook all," he means that. There was no return. This is dramatic. Without an explanation, the man abandons everything which for him has always been everything. He was a man of the world. He was a man who didn't care about religion, he didn't care about his place in society, he didn't care about friendships, he didn't care about prestige, he didn't care about honor, he didn't care about respect, all he cared about was money. He was as crass, greedy as you can get. He didn't care what God thought, what the Pharisees thought, what the people in his town thought, what the synagogue leaders thought. He didn't care anything about anything but money. He would live any way he wanted to live, he was content with the scum and the riff-raff who circled around the tax collectors.
And by the way, that's all there was in that company because they were all outcasts. Fishermen, they didn't have any stigma and the fish didn't care. But tax collector, that's different. This is a scandalous, scandalous act on the part of Jesus that shows His total disregard for religious, societal sensibilities. What teacher who calls himself the Son of God, the Messiah, the Savior of the world, who is holy and righteous would ever, ever, ever call into His company a tax collector. One historian says, "The Mishnah and the Talmud, though written later, register scathing judgments on the tax collector, lumping the tax collector with thieves and murderers. The touch of a tax collector rendered a house unclean. Jewish contempt of tax collectors is epitomized in the ruling that Jews could lie to tax collectors with impunity.
Now, this is the kind of man he is. Now let's dig a little deeper into the kind of man he is. He's sitting in the tax booth, what does that tell us? Well, there were sort of a complex system of taxes, like there is today...many, many, many kinds of taxes. But the bottom line was, Rome established maybe along with Herod Antipas a certain amount of money that would have to come to them. Whatever you get beyond that, you can have. So literally it was a license for t he Galilee mafioso. That's what it was, it was a Galilee mafia made up of tax collectors. It involved crime, larceny, arbitrariness, extortion, usury, exploitation. It was the worst. They were barred from synagogues, all tax collectors, and all the people who worked with them. They were unclean. They couldn't testify in a court of law. They were lumped with murderers and robbers, only they were thought to be worse because of their treason.
There were two kinds of tax collectors. There were two kinds of tax. There was general tax, that would come down to land tax, property tax, income tax, state tax, those kinds of things we're familiar with, general tax.
But then there were other taxes. These would be duties. We're familiar with that, too, right? We pay an estate tax when we die. We pay an income tax every year. We pay property tax, those are fixed general taxes. The people who collected those in first century Judaism were called gabbai, g-a-b-b-a-i, it's a fitting name, gabbai because that's where their money went. I don't know if they intended that, but that's the way it worked out.
So anyway, they said gabbai to the gabbai who took their money on a regular basis. But then you had another kind of tax collector who was called a mokhes, —o-k-h-e-s would be a way to transliterate that Greek word, mokhes...mokhes. They put a tax on everything...tax on import, tax on export, tax on transport. They put tolls on roads, bridges, harbor tolls. They put tolls on the number of wheels, how many legs your donkey had, animals, packages, letters, kind of like today, right? Tax everything.
Well it's nothing new, folks, nothing new. They were the worst because they weren't fixed taxes, they were flexible taxes and the criminal element found its way into the mokhes group and there was such a thing as a great mokhes, he employed all the little mokhes. The Great Mokhes lived in the big house way up on the hill, as far away from the people that he could get. And the little mokhes was down in the booth, reaping the hatred and vitriol and scorn of the people whose money he extorted for the sake of the big guy on the hill.
Well Matthew was a little mokhes, but if you were a good little mokhes in the sense that you were efficient, you could make a lot of money. And if you had the right thugs around you, you could get it out of people, if by pain. Nobody in their right mind would want to be an associate of a little mokhes. Jesus called him to be His disciple. Jesus knew that Levi Matthew had come to recognize his sin, not just the stigma of his job, his career, not just the corruption of his abusive deeds, but his wretchedness before God as a hopeless, condemned violator of God's Law, the man knew he was a sinner, knew there was nothing in himself to commend himself to God. He was hopeless, doomed, damned, and he believed in Jesus and he wanted forgiveness and Jesus knew it. And all Jesus had to say was, "Follow Me." And he got out of that box so fast and left it all behind.
In that moment, everything that controlled his life had no meaning to him. The money had no meaning, the power, the world lost its grip. The old ways lost their charm. Under conviction, all he wanted was forgiveness and he knew Jesus was the one who could provide it. He had a new heart, new mind, new longings, new desires and never looked back.
So, Levi Matthew, the traitor, Levi Matthew, the extortioner, the robber, the outcast, the greedy, abusive sinner became a disciple and an apostle and a writer of the history of Jesus. Lost a career, gained eternal glory. Lost material possessions, gained heaven. Lost earthly security, gained heavenly inheritance. He knew what the Jewish leaders didn't know. He knew that it was for men and women like him that Jesus had come to bring salvation.
Well, the call of Matthew leads to the community of sinners. Let's carry the story forward in verse 15, "And it happened that he was reclining at the table in his house," that's in Matthew's house. "And many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many of them and they were following them." Matthew now is filled with gratitude. He is thrilled about what the Lord has done in his life and he's going to have a banquet. This is a lavish, long, drawn-out, big-time feast to honor Jesus Christ. He has a big house so even as a little mokhes, you can make a lot of money. Luke 5:29 says it was his house, large house. And they reclined. That's the posture for a long, relaxed meal. We don't know about that. We eat fast, standing up, moving. This was another world, another time.
So they all reclined. Literally on an elbow eating with the other hand, feet away from the table. A lavish feast to honor Jesus and to hear Him and to hear the story of forgiveness and to have Matthew give his testimony to all his friends. And, of course, those were the only people who would come because those are the only people he could associate with because he was an outcast. He invited them all. So what you had here was all the dishonorable, despised rejects of Galilee, everybody in the tax world. And you know what's happening? There's a revival going on here because it says there were tax collectors and sinners, the general category which include all the thugs, and all the side-line professions of crime and prostitution that went with the rest, and they were all there and there were many of them and they were following Him. There's a revival that's breaking up the Galilee mafia. Sinners, hamartolos, the wicked, Mishnah says gamblers, money lenders, I love this one, dove erasers, that's what the Mishnah says. Sabbath violators, violent shepherds...shepherds were considered filthy as well, tax collectors, thieves, thugs, enforcers, drunkards, prostitutes, all the dregs of society, the am ha-aretz, that is the land, people of the dirt, people who would never get to heaven, never could get to heaven and through Jesus they did and the self-righteous did not.
By the way, they were all in there eating with Jesus and His disciples. First use of the word "disciples" in Mark. The disciple is a learner, mathetes is a learner, somebody who is following Jesus to learn from Him.
So there was Jesus along with His disciples, the six would have been there and now we add Matthew to he group and perhaps other followers, and then there are many of these other people who are there. And the common description is, they were all following Him because He was the friend of sinners. They had never known anybody like that, there was nobody in that culture like that. There was no friend for sinners except another wretched sinner who couldn't help.
Well, the call of Matthew in the community of sinners leads, thirdly, to the contempt of the self-righteous...the contempt of the self-righteous. The Pharisees can't let this go, they're always around, always dogging the steps of Jesus. You do remember, of course, that they never leave Him alone, they are absolutely relentless. And when the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, "Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?" And again I say, folks, this was the scandal. When the scribes of the Pharisees, it means the scribes who were Pharisees. Scribes were scholars, academicians, lawyers and all sects had them. The Sadducees had them and the other sects had them, the Pharisees had some too. The scribes who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees were just shocked beyond words, stunned. They couldn't believe it. Eating symbolized acceptance, welcome, even more, friendship. They wouldn't eat with anybody who was a sinner and they would pride themselves on that being because of Psalm 1:1, they would go back and say, "How blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the council of the wicked or stand in the path of sinners...sit in the seat of mockers." They refused to do that. How can Jesus do this? How can this be the Messiah, the Son of God, the Lord of heaven, the Savior when He doesn't even come to the standard that we established? This is wholly below the acceptance of the standard of God in their minds.
So Luke says they began grumbling, uses a Greek onomatopoeic word, gongutooo..ooo.(?) And they say, this is a rhetorical question, "Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?" Remember, they had morality without holiness, they could look good but they couldn't be good, they could act righteous but they couldn't be righteous. Their question is intended to be a stinging rebuke, a bitter vindictive, outrageous indictment of Jesus. These are Satan's people and they were facing the distinction between all false religion and the true gospel. The gospel is a conflict between grace and all other religions which are forms of law, faith and all other religions which are forms of works, divine accomplishment and all other religions which are forms of human achievement as a means of salvation. And I remind you that Paul summed it up, He came to justify the ungodly, not the people who earned it...not the people who earned it.
So, true to their religion, they registered their vindictive outrage, He's eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners. Sinners is the big category, tax collectors are pulled out of it because of the case of Matthew and because they were the worst.
So the call of Matthew, the community of sinners, the contempt of the religious leaders leads finally to the condemnation of Jesus. Jesus renders a condemnation on them. Verse 17, "Hearing this, they wouldn't have come inside their outside, but these are open houses. Jesus said to them, 'It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'"
His answer to their rhetorical question is two-fold. First, an analogy...first, an analogy, can you understand this? It is not those who are healthy who need a physician but those who are sick. It's a very simple analogy...doctors go to sick people. How simple is that? Jesus is the spiritual doctor, He is the spiritual iatros, physician, healer, and He needs to go to the people who need to be healed. If the Pharisees can see how sick with sin these people are and they already see that, they know they are sinners, they label them as sinners, they have a complete recognition of their sinfulness...doesn't it make sense that if the Savior comes, He goes to the sinners?
This is a very strong indictment of their cold hearts. That's why Jesus said in contrast to going to them, "Come unto Me all you who are heavy ladened and I'll give you rest." In Matthew 23 He said that they bind strong burdens, heavy burdens on the backs of people, people can't even carry, and they give them no help. Come to Me, if you're a sinner, and I'll forgive your sin. He is the Lord who heals you, as He's identified in Exodus 15:26. He is the soul healer, the spiritual healer. The analogy is obvious, you said they're sinners, you said they're sinners. If they're sinners, if they're sick with sin, they need a spiritual healer, they need a spiritual doctor to forgive their sins.
So His first answer is from an analogy, His second answer is from authority, end of verse 17. "I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners." And Luke 5:32 adds, "To repentance." To call, that is to call into the Kingdom, to call to forgiveness, to call to salvation. Jesus said, "I didn't come for you, I can't do anything about you. He accepts on the surface for the sake of the moment their own estimate of themselves. And their own estimate of themselves, these religious leaders, is that they are righteous. Okay, you're righteous, I didn't come for you. And as long as you continue to think you're righteous, you'll die in your sins and where I go, you'll never come. I accept your diagnosis, I accept the delusion. You're the righteous, you don't need Me and I can't offer you anything. I didn't come for the righteous, I didn't come to call the righteous, I can't offer them anything, I came to call sinners to repentance. Oh how they hated Him for this.
They were so far from God, they could identify people as sinners and instead of wanting to be the source of their healing and bringing them spiritual well-being, they had no mercy on them. And when Jesus came and did, they raged with hate at the merciful physician who in compassion welcomed the forgiven and believing sinners into His salvation Kingdom. With Jesus, where sin abounds, grace abounds much more.
So it is today, this church, the church of Jesus Christ is not made up of good people, it's made up of bad people. It's not made up of people who think they're righteous, it's made up of people who know they're not. It's not made up of the people who have attained to a certain acceptable degree with God, it's made up of people who know they could never attain to an acceptable place before God.
It's not made up of people who think they're good, it's made up of people who know they're wicked. It's not made up of people who have achieved righteousness on their own, it's made up of people who have received righteousness from God as a gift. This is the gospel.
Yes, He has the authority to forgive sin, but the only sin He can forgive is the sin of those who know their wretchedness, acknowledge it, put their trust in Him.
Father, we are so blessed, this morning, to hear this glorious message of the gospel again. At the heart of all that we do is this wondrous scandal of grace that where sin abounds, grace does much abound. We thank You that however sinful sin is, grace triumphs. As James 4:6 says, "He gives a greater grace." God is opposed to the proud, His grace to the humble. O Lord, we thank You that You have brought us to the place of being convicted about our sin and our inability to save ourselves and You've revealed Your glorious gospel of grace to us. I pray for sinners here today who are willing to recognize their sinfulness. May they be like Matthew, just sitting, waiting for the offer, waiting for the call. May that call come to their heart today. May You call them away from sin to the glory of salvation, call them away from guilt to the fullness of forgiveness, not because they earned it but because they asked. Lord, we thank You for this gift, we thank You for our salvation in Christ's name. Amen.
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At least seven bald eagles have died from encounters with power lines in East Texas, an alarming increase for the rebounding species, wildlife officials say.
Collisions or electrocutions involving power lines killed birds in six Texas counties, they said.
"It is happening more often, and because of the eagles' resurgence, it is going to increase," Jim Stinebaugh, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agent, told the Houston Chronicle.
Power poles and lines are attractive to the eagles, which use them as perches from which they can spot prey.
The problem arises when electricity transmission wires are closer than the distance of an eagle's wingspan, which ranges from 6 feet to 8 feet.
"The danger comes from the potential to touch two lines," said Jeff DallaRosa, ecological programs manager for CenterPoint Energy Inc., which provides power to Houston. "The eagle is such a large bird that a lot of poles do not have that kind of spacing."
CenterPoint has made proposals to prevent electrocutions that include installing "raptor guards" to prevent eagles from roosting on wires and poles and working with wildlife groups to identify lines near nests for extra precautions.
"The young ones can be awkward and do not make the best decisions," DallaRosa said.
The eagle population in Texas has continued to grow at a rate of about 10 percent a year, officials estimate.
The U.S. Interior Department removed bald eagles from the protection of the Endangered Species Act five years ago, with about 10,000 mating pairs nationwide.
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Thanks to the Sisters of Alpha Pi Phi Zeta Chapter in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada!
There is an old Japanese tradition that 1,000 origami paper cranes will bring good luck. Cranes for Cancer's mission is to provide baskets or vases of 1,000 cranes to cancer patients. The 1000 cranes bring hope and uplift spirits. We've been doing this for about 18 years, but we NEED HELP! You can help by: 1) Donating money for supplies 2) Donating origami paper 3) FOLDING CRANES.
If you know of a person who is in need of 1,000 origami paper cranes, please send an e-mail and we will send your dear friend or family member 1,000 paper cranes of hope and healing.
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The High Line's new snazzy recycling bins steal the show near the Standard Hotel.
Who says recycling isn't stylish? Not the High Line. If you've finished your bottle of water, can of beans, or New York Times, look for the newly installed and eye-catchingly labelled bins to deposit your plastics, cans, and paper goods. Three black bins can be found near the Gansevoort entrance, just beneath the Standard Hotel (see above), and three more in the Chelsea Market Passage.
Bins are marked blue for bottles and cans; green for newspapers, magazines, and other paper; and basic black for basic garbage. Use these bins and help keep the High Line a clean, green fighting machine!


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Autumn has arrived early in my garden and by autumn I mean temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s rather than the usual 90-degree weather we often see until early October. Perhaps not what some of you would call a crisp fall day, but I'll take it.
Wherever your garden may be, this is the perfect time to give it some pizazz with a fresh container garden planted with bright fall colors.
Courtesy of my friends at Proven Winners here are two container designs that will take you from early fall's mild weather to the first hard freeze late in the season. To find out more information about the plants used in these designs and where they can be purchased visit www.provenwinners.com.
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14-inch Container
(2) 4.5-inch Superbells® Dreamsicle Calibrachoa
(2) 4.5-inch Superbells® Red Calibrachoa
(1) 4.5-inch Graceful Grasses™ Toffee Twist Carex
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12-inch Container
(1) 4.5-inch Dolce® Key Lime Pie Heuchera
(1) 4.5-inch Superbells® Peach Calibrachoa
(1) 4.5-inch Efanthia Euphorbia
(1) Graceful Grasses™ Quartz Creek Juncus


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There's nothing like finding a new app that transforms how you work or play. With new tabs, it's easier than ever to discover the next app or game you can't live without. Each tab is filled with content to keep you informed, engaged and inspired.
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I am currently looking for 1 more player for a 4 character 4e D&D campaign that I will be DMing at my house in Fife. The current players have decided to go with an all dwarf group and I believe they are looking for a striker, but they might be flexible on the class.
Send me a message if you are interested. The game will be every other Sunday at 2pm. We usually play until roughly 8pm for our other games, so I would assume this one will be the same. This game will begin Feb 26th after our current Sunday game has concluded.


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For many people like me, starting your own business is the embodiment of the American dream -- you get to be your own boss, build something from the ground up and revel in its success. But for some budding entrepreneurs in several states their small businesses have become big financial nightmares -- and not because of the economy. Rather, the federal government has forced them to go cash-only in an electronic economy despite the fact they sell a legal product (in some states): marijuana. According to the federal government, however, it's still illegal.
Even if you own a business selling marijuana in a state where it's legal, even if it's for medical use, you will have trouble getting a bank loan, accepting credit cards (or getting one for your business), claiming any business expenses on your taxes or even running your proceeds and expenses through many bank accounts. And even if the federal laws prohibiting banks from doing business with people who sell certain substances aren't exclusively targeting marijuana sellers in states where it is legal, the feds certainly haven't shied away from targeting legal dispensaries in the recent past based on those very laws.
It's just another example of the federal government's willingness to use whatever means at its disposal -- in this case, its oversight of financial institutions -- to compel its citizens to abide by a certain set of moral codes with which, increasingly, most of its citizens do not agree.
Fully 58 percent of Americans now believe that marijuana should be legal, according to an October Gallup poll. To be clear, they weren't asked if "medical marijuana" should be legal, which has long enjoyed majority support, or if marijuana possession should be decriminalized, but whether the drug itself should just be legal. A solid 60 percent of Americans think that the federal government should stop enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states where it is legal, according to a Pew Research Center Poll that also showed 70 percent of Americans think the money we spend enforcing marijuana laws isn't worth it.
Yet, in Colorado and Washington -- where residents voted to make marijuana sales and possession wholly legal -- proprietors who operate within the law are forced to contend with a situation driven by government policy that makes them less safe, their customers less safe and the state less likely to collect tax revenues on which it is counting -- they are, and have to remain, cash-only. That means, for many small business owners, they pay their employees in cash, they pay their taxes in cash and they purchase most of their goods and supplies in cash, all of which leave them more vulnerable to violent crime than the average small business person.
Worse, as some in law enforcement have warned, it leaves the entire system vulnerable to bad actors, who see cash-only businesses as conduits to launder money or cheat the system.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder said last week that the department is preparing "legal guidance" for prosecutors and law enforcement in an effort to clarify how these businesses should be able to access the banking system. This doesn't mean that the guidance will necessarily mean an "all's clear" for legal dispensaries. The federal government issued a similar guidance in 2009 that was then ignored by law enforcement when raiding the very shops the guidance was expected to protect. The guidance, Politico noted when it was issued, "wouldn't be enforceable in court and would amount to less than the kind of clear safe harbor many banks say they would want before accepting money from pot businesses."
It's time to stop this nonsense. The voters of Colorado and Washington believe marijuana should be legal, and medical marijuana is legal in another 18 states and the District of Columbia. Even my home state of New York is launching a medical marijuana trial program. The last three presidents have used it, most of our Congressional leaders have tried it and we're increasingly unlikely to have another president who can even claim that he (or she) didn't inhale.
So there's no reason for the small business owners to bear the brunt of the federal government's desire to enforce a marijuana prohibition law its own people don't support and many states have thrown out -- and there's even less reason to make the men and women employed by the private banks and credit card companies the de facto enforcers of that law. If it's going to be legal, small business owners who sell it should have the same access to the financial system (and the protections that system provides them) as any other small business owner in America.
The only way to make the system safe, secure, easy to monitor and taxable is to make it like every other business in the eyes of the (federal) law and the banks that can help it grow.


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TGIF! Get ready for weekend fun and games by trying a few of our art-inspired riddles. Look closely, each artwork holds the clue you need to solve the riddle. Riddles first, answers at the end.
1. What has hands but cannot clap?
Philip Glass turns 80 this month, and to celebrate the CMA is showing the complete Qatsi Trilogy – the composer's groundbreaking collaboration with filmmaker Godfrey Reggio.
Check out these five must-attend events this week at the CMA!
The CMA's next exhibition, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, opens this Sun, 1/22!
On view NOW in gallery 226A, check out four paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, including three of her well-known flower paintings.
If you're stocking up on rabbits' feet and turning the other direction when you see a black cat today, you're not alone.
This doll, Boy with Dog, is on view NOW! As seen here, the doll is a nodder, with its head carved separately; when its head moves, its tongue sticks out.
Ringing in the New Year at a big bash? The museum's collection can help you with timeless style.
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A new cop will be walking the beat in Matlock aftering being sworn into the force.
PC Nathan Grant is the latest face to join the Dales policing team, having previously been an activity instructor.
He was sworn in alongside 15 other new officers at Derbyshire Constabulary's headquarters in Ripley.


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- Some listed community events are not sponsored by the Department of Parks and Recreation. Please click on individual event to see more information.
- To see past events if you need to check if a deadline has passed, click 'All Past' below.
- For more information on events at the Edward A. Dufresne Community Center, click here.
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Reviewed By Larry T (Sullivan, IN) Reviewed for a 2012 Jeep Wrangler —2/18/2015 7:40 PM
great kit exactly what I was looking for. installation of the cold air was very easy. installing the exhaust was also easy however I did have it welded after installation due to a few small leaks. love the sound now more fun to drive


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We have a team of specialist doctors and nurses at the practice. Please give a description of your symptoms to the receptionist so that we can help you more efficiently.
The midwife holds a weekly antenatal clinic. Appointments are booked by the midwife and not by the receptionists.
The practice nurse holds a weekly child immunisation clinic by appointment every Thursday afternoon. Appointments can be booked via the receptionists. Babies must have had their six week check by a doctor before they can book into the immunisation clinic.
Contraceptive care is provided by one of Nurse Practitioners during surgery hours. Pre-bookable appointments are available for our Women's Health clinics which are run twice a week
Appointments can be booked with our Nurse Practitioner or Practice Nurse for smears and discussions of women's health issues or in one of our specific women's health clinics.
The surgery is able to carry out minor surgical procedures by appointment. The doctors will be happy to advise you on this.
The doctors are happy to carry out medicals, eg insurance and driving licences, by appointment outside surgery hours. Please telephone the surgery for an appointment. Please ask at reception for the charges for these services.
The practice has two midwives who provide ante-natel care. They are based on the first floor of the building.
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An influenza vaccination is particularly recommended for patients with heart, lung or kidney disease, diabetes, and residents of nursing and rest homes. Please contact the reception staff from mid September onwards for details and to make an appointment.
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Faust for the 21st century
One of my pseudo-resolutions for 2009 is to better document and publicise the stuff I work on. This is a great example of that. The concept for a iPhone geolocated game that Jefferson Wright and I created (in an intense weekend) during the CFC Interactive Arts and Entertainment program.
We came up with this nearly a year ago (April 2008), and I think it contains some pretty neat ideas. I just wish that we documented it online then rather than now – when it feels a little less cutting edge, because this stuff really exists now.


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Jimmy Reeves
Jimmy L. Reeves, 78, of Avilla went to be with the Lord on Oct. 30, 2013. He was a member of Moose Lodge 2556 and loved wrestling and shuffleboard.
He was preceded in death by his parents, John Avery Reeves and Mattie Moxen; a brother, John E. Reeves; a daughter, Kim Bray; two sons, Brent Reeves and Robert Bramlett; and a grandson, Jeremy Grafe.
He is survived by his wife, Pat Reeves of Avilla; two sons, Leon Reeves of Avilla and Todd Reeves of Benton; two daughters, Linda Olivella and Toni Crowson, both of Avilla; a sister, Mae Robinson of Malvern; a half-brother, Donald Reeves of Alabama; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A service in remembrance for Jimmy is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at Bethel Baptist Church, 3777 Kruse Loop, Alexander (Avilla).
Arrangements are by Little Rock Funeral Home, 8801 Knoedl Court, Little Rock (501- 224-2200).
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(RNN) - This is a must watch video for every man ... and woman ... on the planet.
Two Dutch men who host a television show can now say they have some insight into the pain of childbirth.
Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno who host Guinea Pigs do crazy things for their audience.
In 2011, they made international headlines for allegedly consuming each other's flesh. It turned out that was a hoax ... whew.
During the episode called Dennis and Valerio Get Contractions, both were fitted with adhesive electrodes that delivered shocks to their abdomen in a procedure meant to simulate labor pains.
Watch it for yourself. (It's in Dutch, but you can click the "CC" icon in the lower right side of the screen for English captions.)
The good stuff starts around the 4:30 mark, but you can watch their nervousness start at around the 3:30 mark.
To watch the video, click here.
Needless to say, it's probably a good thing the women give birth and not men.
The contractions (electro stimulation) were timed and controlled. They increased in intensity, duration, and the time between the contractions was decreased as their experiment charged on.
Although the men laugh off the pain at first, they end up howling and yelling in distress as the simulated contractions intensify and become more frequent.
The men last a whopping two hours before succumbing to the pain.
According to the Mayo Clinic, early labor can last for hours, or sometimes days. Active labor typically lasts up to eight hours.
Zeno said the challenge was "torture" and wonders if he wants his wife to go through the same pain.
However, this isn't the first time a male show host has gone through simulated labor pains.
Dr. Andrew Rochford went through a similar situation for Australian TV show What's Good For You in 2009.
"To all you women out there, I used to think that I understood what it was like to go through labor," Rochford said. "But, men of the world, you have no idea. Forget the whole pain threshold debate. We have nothing. Women win."
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At Dickinson, students have the opportunity to work with their professors on research, to conduct research on their own and to engage in senior projects and other independent opportunities to conduct research. The Students as Scholars pages collect and communicate these scholarly endeavors, whether in the form of presentations, artistic performances or publications.
Research is a vital component of Dickinson's curriculum. We offer students opportunities for research and artistic performance in virtually all fields.
"It was a great chance to work with a professor closely and learn the ins and outs of academic publishing and editing. I am strongly considering a career in publishing or as an editor, and I thought this would be a fantastic way to begin."
-Colin Myles Tripp '14
on working with Assistant Professor David Ball on Ball's book, False Starts
This site contains links to several activities where students have the opportunity to showcase their research activity and its outcomes. The work presented represents activity from all academic departments. See public Research Presentations and Research Publications for details about conferences, symposia, journal articles and books where student research has appeared.
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Finals Day: NHIAA titles to be decided today in baseball, softball, boys' volleyballStaff Report
June 13. 2014 7:48PM
Today's NHIAA State FinalsBASEBALL
at NE Delta Dental Stadium
Div. I: Londonderry vs. Pinkerton, 4 p.m.
Div. II: Goffstown vs. Plymouth, 7 p.m.
Div. III: Campbell vs. Somersworth, 10 a.m.
Div. IV: Gorham vs. Sunapee, 1 p.m.
at SNHU
Div. I: Spaulding vs. Dover, 7 p.m.
Div. II: Coe-Brown vs. John Stark, 4:30 p.m.
at Plymouth State
Div. III: White Mountains vs. Campbell, 4 p.m.
Div. IV: Portsmouth Christian vs. Wilton-Lyndeborough, 2 p.m.
at Nashua North
Div. I: Timberlane vs. Salem, 6 p.m.
From Nashua to Plymouth, from 10 a.m. until well into the night, high school athletes are scheduled to compete for NHIAA division championships today in baseball, softball and boys' volleyball.
Beyond the borders, most of the state's top track and field athletes will compete for regional titles at Bridgewater State University in southeastern Massachusetts.
All four baseball division finals will take place at Manchester's Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, home of the minor-league New Hampshire Fisher Cats, with the top-seeded teams in Division III — Campbell of Litchfield and Somersworth, respectively — scheduled to open play at 10 a.m.
With showers in the forecast until early afternoon, weather could be a factor, though the NEDD is known to have excellent drainage. As of Friday, the NHIAA had no timetable for a decision on whether to delay play.
The rest of the baseball schedule includes No. 2 Sunapee and No. 8 Gorham in the Division IV final at 1 p.m., fifth-seeded Londonderry and No. 3 Pinkerton Academy of Derry in the Division I championship at 4, and top-seeded Goffstown vs. No. 3 Plymouth in the Division II final at 7.
Two finals each will take place at Plymouth State and Southern New Hampshire universities.
At Plymouth State, No. 2 Wilton-Lyndeborough is scheduled to face No. 4 Portsmouth Christian Academy in the Division IV final at 2 p.m., followed by No. 1 White Mountains Regional of Whitefield and No. 3 Campbell at 4.
At SNHU, top-ranked Coe-Brown Northwood Academy and No. 7 John Stark Regional of Weare are set to square off for the Division II championship at 4:30 p.m., with the Division I final between No. 1 Spaulding of Rochester and No. 3 Dover to follow at 7.
Boys' volleyball
One final that shouldn't be affected by weather is the boys' volleyball match between perennial champion Salem and third seed Timberlane Regional of Plaistow, set to take place indoors at Nashua High North, beginning at 6 p.m.
Salem (17-1) is looking to continue its run of winning every title since the NHIAA first sanctioned volleyball as a boys' sport in 2004. Timberlane enters the final at 16-4.
Track and field
Athletes from all three track and field divisions will be competing in Bridgewater after qualifying for the New England Interscholastic Outdoor Championships during last Saturday's NHIAA Meet of Champions.
Seven Granite Staters enter the meet as the top seed in their respective events.
Among the girls, Coe-Brown junior Hannah Parker is No. 1 in the 800-meter run, with a top time of 2 minutes 8.42 seconds; Lebanon freshman Corinne Kennedy is ranked first in the 300-meter hurdles, with a time of 43.54 seconds; Ariel Clachar, another Coe-Brown junior, is the top seed in the long jump, at a distance of 18 feet, 1 1/2 inches; and Morgan Ferland, a junior at Fall Mountain Regional of Langdon, is No. 1 in the discus, at 127-7.
Top-seeded boys include Souhegan of Amherst senior Ben DeForest in the 110-meter hurdles, at 14.49 seconds; Lebanon senior John Cioffredi in the high jump, at 6-8 1/4; and Milford senior Alex Tamulonis in the pole vault at 14-9.


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"Can I have a quarter please!"
As a mother of four, these words make me cringe—knowing what my little guys are aspiring to get with this precious coin.
You know, those vending machines at child-eye-level that have little trinkets of no value. Still the asking continues for a toy that will not even make it out of our vehicle into our house of more trinkets of little value.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy receiving gifts and even better giving some thoughtful gifts to my family and especially to my children. Still, I can't help but think that our desires and prayers at times must sound, to our heavenly Father similar to my children's pleads for worthless trinkets.
As God's word says that the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
I encourage you to give things of eternal value this year: forgiveness, love, grace and bring peace to your family.
If you have family to be with this Christmas Eve, take time to enjoy them as 1 Timothy 6:17 says: God is the one who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
For those with a desire to worship with communion and others this Christmas Eve, we would like to offer an invitation at Gardnersville Baptist Church to attend our service at 6 p.m. Dec. 24. For more information or inclement weather, call Joseph Kozar at 859-824-7553. Have a Merry Christmas allowing the love of our Savior to reign in your home.
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – U.S. wildlife officials in Denver plan to destroy 6 tons of ivory to send a message against elephant poaching that has reached record levels.
The ivory tusks, statues and jewelry that will be destroyed Thursday were confiscated by federal agents around the country.
Global treaties ban trafficking in ivory. But tens of thousands of African and Asian elephants are killed each year to support the illegal trade.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it hopes the ivory crush raises global awareness about the ongoing elephant slaughter.
The event is being held at the National Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City.
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Mr RonYelm, WAAge: Over 65Gender: male5 Stars Out Of 5well done study on the uniqueness of ChristDecember 2, 2013Mr RonYelm, WAAge: Over 65Gender: maleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for Why Jesus? Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality.In reply to those who say Ravi is criticizing other religions I just want to say that I have been reading and listening to Ravi since 1994 and I must say that Ravi goes out of his way to avoid coming across as criticizing. Some people cannot separate telling the truth from criticizing. Ravi shows where all the religions in the world fail in their answers to the great subject of salvation from sin. This is not criticism. When the proponents of those religions are given the floor they have no answers. no truth.
PilgrimKetchikan, AlaskaAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5So much more than I expected.November 11, 2013PilgrimKetchikan, AlaskaAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for Why Jesus? Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality.I was almost 2/3 of the way through the book before very much was said about Jesus. This book has given me a clearer understanding of the New Spirituality, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and the uniqueness of Jesus and what he offers in contrast. I am impressed with Mr. Zacharias' authority on these things as his knowledge comes from careful study of a wide range of religions and his personal experiences as a youth in India and now his wide engagement with other cultures and diverse groups of people. I must admit that I needed to have a dictionary close by to more fully grasp what he was talking about! I highly recommend the book to others.
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TAMPA, Fla. – Victor Hedman had two goals and an assist to help the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2 on Wednesday night, spoiling Vincent Lecavalier's homecoming.
Lecavalier, who played 14 years for the Lightning after being selected first overall in the 1998 draft, faced his old team for the first time and scored a power-play goal late in the third period. The former Tampa Bay captain received a standing ovation after a video tribute was played on the scoreboard midway through the first.
Ondrej Palat and Tyler Johnson also scored for the Lightning, who have won seven in a row at home. Anders Lindback stopped Wayne Simmonds on a first-period penalty shot.
Mark Streit also scored for the Flyers, who were coming off a 3-1 loss Monday at Florida that ended a 6-0-1 stretch.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Evgeni Malkin had his first two-goal game in more than 18 months and added the game-winner in a shootout to rally Pittsburgh past Toronto.
Chris Conner, Kris Letang and James Neal also scored for Pittsburgh, which erased 4-1 and 5-3 deficits. Sidney Crosby added two assists to lift his point total to a league-leading 33 and scored in the second round of the shootout against Jonathan Bernier before Malkin finished it off.
Jeff Zatkoff stopped 11 of 13 shots after replacing ineffective starter Marc-Andre Fleury less than a minute into the second period.
James van Riemsdyk scored twice and added an assist for the Maple Leafs. Phil Kessel, Tyler Bozak and Nazem Kadri also scored for Toronto, but the Maple Leafs lost their way after taking a big lead.
Toronto failed to record a single shot in the third period or overtime.
There were no such problems for the Penguins, who fired a season-high 48 shots at Bernier. He made 43 stops, but went just 1 for 3 in the shootout.
DENVER (AP)—Jaroslav Halak made 24 saves, David Backes had a goal and an assist and the streaking St. Louis Blues beat Colorado.
Alexander Steen scored his 20th of the season and Jaden Schwartz also had a goal for the Blues, who have won five straight.
Semyon Varlamov stopped 31 shots and Patrick Bordeleau scored for the Avalanche, who had won three in a row.
Colorado's 17-5-0 start was a franchise best this deep into the season, but the Blues have been the better team lately. They have won 10 of 12 and earned points in 11 of those games.
One of their wins in that stretch was a 7-3 victory over Colorado on Nov. 14, which came in the middle of a three-game skid for the Avalanche.
Steen made it 2-0 on a power play, tying Washington's Alex Ovechkin for the NHL lead in goals.
CALGARY, Alberta (AP)—Patrick Kane scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal with 18 seconds left, and Chicago rallied for three straight goals in the third period to beat Calgary.
Patrick Sharp also scored for the Blackhawks (18-4-4), the top team in the NHL. The defending Stanley Cup champions improved to 4-1-0 on their seven-game road trip.
Matt Stajan and Sean Monahan scored for the Flames, who are 1-5-2 in their last eight home games.
After Sven Baertschi lost the puck at the Calgary blue line, a shot from Niklas Hjalmarsson caromed sharply off the skate of Flames defenceman Chris Butler. The puck went straight to Kane at the side of the net, where he spun and lifted a backhand over goalie Reto Berra.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)—Joe Thornton scored his first shootout goal since 2007 in the eighth round and San Jose beat Los Angeles to extend the home-team dominance in this California rivalry.
Thornton and Joe Pavelski scored in regulation for the Sharks, who have won nine straight at home against the Kings including the post-season. In all, the home team has won the last 14 matchups, including all seven in last spring's playoff series won by Los Angeles.
Jeff Carter and Drew Doughty scored for the Kings, who tied a franchise record by earning a point in their 11th straight game. They also did that in 1973-74 and 2010-11.
Ben Scrivens made 38 saves.
Thornton got his first shootout attempt since the 2009-10 season and stuffed a backhand past Scrivens. It was his first shootout goal since Dec. 16, 2007, against Anaheim.
Antti Niemi then stopped Tyler Toffoli to seal it. Niemi made 38 saves as San Jose opened a difficult stretch of three games in four days against top-five teams.
DETROIT (AP)—Niklas Kronwall, Henrik Zetterberg, Gustav Nyquist and Tomas Tatar each a goal and an assist in Detroit's victory over Boston.
Justin Abdelkader and Drew Miller and also scored for the Red Wings. Johan Franzen had three assists, Joakim Andersson two assists and Jonas Gustavsson made 16 saves.
Jarome Iginla scored for Boston and Tuukka Rask stopped 22 shots.
Detroit scored three goals in less than 4 minutes in the second period.
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP)—Rick Nash scored his second goal of the season and Henrik Lundqvist rebounded from a poor game with 31 saves to lift New York over Florida.
Mats Zuccarello, Brad Richards and Derick Brassard also scored for the Rangers. Carl Hagelin added an empty-net goal with 24 seconds left.
Nick Bjugstad and Scottie Upshall scored in the third period for Florida. Tim Thomas allowed four goals on 21 shots.
After the Panthers scored twice to cut their deficit to one, Zuccarello's power-play goal made it 4-2 with 1:28 left. The Rangers improved to 3-1 on a five-game road trip. The five goals tied their season high.
Lundqvist was back between the pipes after getting pulled from a 5-0 loss at Tampa Bay on Monday, when the 2012 Vezina Trophy winner gave up four goals in two periods.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—Alex Galchenyuk and David Desharnais scored, Carey Price made 24 saves and Montreal extended its winning streak to four games with a victory over Buffalo.
Andrei Markov had three assists and Montreal's NHL-best road power play scored twice in four chances.
Matt Moulson scored for Buffalo as the Sabres lost their fifth consecutive game in regulation. Ryan Miller made 28 saves.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP)—Patrick Dwyer scored short-handed to cap a three-goal burst in the second period, and Carolina snapped its six-game road losing streak by beating New Jersey.
Justin Faulk scored his first of the season, and Tuomo Ruutu and Ron Hainsey each had a goal for the Hurricanes, who opened a 4-1 lead and held on behind 19 saves from Cam Ward. Eric Staal's assist extended his season-best points streak to seven games.
Travis Zajac, Andy Greene and Jaromir Jagr scored for the Devils, who lost their third in a row—all with Martin Brodeur in goal. Jagr's 691st goal moved him past former Pittsburgh Penguins teammate Mario Lemieux for ninth place in NHL history.
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)—Mark Stuart, Andrew Ladd and Devin Setoguchi scored in the second period and Al Montoya made 28 saves to help Winnipeg defeat New York.
The Jets won their second straight to start a six-game road trip and handed the Islanders their ninth loss in 11 games.
John Tavares and defenceman Andrew MacDonald scored for the Islanders, who fell behind 3-0.
Winnipeg's Jacob Trouba went off for hooking at 14:54 of the third, but the Islanders put minimal pressure on Montoya.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Bobby Ryan scored twice and Zack Smith netted the go-ahead goal with 2:23 remaining in Ottawa's win over Washington.
Smith's goal came after John Carlson tied the game for the Capitals on a power play.
Chris Phillips had a goal and an assist, and Mika Zibanejad and Colin Greening added goals for Ottawa. Erik Karlsson had two assists and Craig Anderson stopped 29 shots.
It was Ottawa's first win in regulation at the Verizon Center since March 12, 2006.
Eric Fehr, Marcus Johansson and Brooks Laich also scored for Washington, which led 3-1 before dropping its fourth straight.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)—Rookie goalie Marek Mazanec made 19 saves for his second shutout, and Matt Cullen and Nick Spaling each had a goal and an assist as Nashville blanked Columbus.
Mike Fisher and David Legwand also scored for the Predators, who have found their groove on the heels of a four-game losing streak. Mazanec, filling in while Pekka Rinne recovers from a hip injury, earned his fifth win—all in the last six games.
The Predators improved to 11-1-2 when scoring first and 9-0-1 when leading after the opening period.
The Blue Jackets have alternated wins and losses for six games.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)—Radim Vrbata scored two goals and Thomas Greiss made 28 saves to lead Phoenix over Minnesota.
The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Coyotes, who are 6-0-2 in their past eight games at Minnesota. The Wild have lost two straight and scored a total of one goal in that stretch.
The Wild were playing their first game without leading scorer Zach Parise, expected to miss two to three weeks with a foot injury sustained Monday in St. Louis.
Mikkel Boedker put the Coyotes on top at 8:13 of the first.
Dany Heatley scored for Minnesota.


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When: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Beginning at 7:30 a.m. rain or shine, the annual Master Gardeners of Greene County plant sale attracts thousands of area gardeners. Most plants are priced from $2 to $5, and some extraordinary specimens are $20.In addition to perennials and vegetables, the inventory includes house plants, herbs, bulbs, grasses, vines, ground covers, shrubs and trees, potted up and donated from Master Gardener gardens.
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Hey Ding-Dongers, right or wrongers, you know who the singer is but you can't remember the song-ers, it's that time again. Matt just got back from San Francisco's Outside Lands and he got to sing (not rap this time) a song. Also with him was Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall, and he won't shut up about it. Erotic fan fiction was written, bands were seen, a guy had a "I have a boner" button on his backpack, and more! Also, he did a test version of Chris Hardwick's new show and it's gonna be bonkers fun. Tune in!
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But if you're looking for a quick caffeine buzz and a nice place to study, you'll find it a few doors down at Green Beans. For students (the core customers of many coffee shops), finding the perfect spot involves some basic questions. How fast is the Internet connection? Is the mocha sweet? Are there cheap snacks? Can you hear your study partner explaining that proof? Most important, can you sit for hours without being hassled?
Heart's trendy decor feels a little cold, while Green Beans' shabby style doesn't intimidate. Heart's chrome roaster might look impressive, but the constant grind makes studying frustrating. The flavors are complex, but most young people aren't looking for herbal undertones, they're looking for java flavor in their liquefied sugar. We went to 10 spots to find the best places for caffeine-craving students rather than coffee snobs.
Anna Bannanas, St. Johns
Anna Bannanas, a University of Portland hangout, is like an extension of a cluttered dorm room. A private, quiet back room and ample electrical outlets make for a decent study space, though lighting is dim. Its sizable selection of cheap eats and sugary drinks will tide you over until the campus cafeteria opens
Mocha: Sticky sweet ($3.60).
Refills: Half the price of the original drink.
Wi-Fi speed: 2,849 kbps.
8716 N Lombard St. 6:30 am-10 pm Monday-Thursday, 6:30 am-11 pm Friday, 7:30 am-11 pm Saturday, 7:30 am-10 pm Sunday.
Blue Kangaroo, Sellwood-Moreland
Customer-made dollar-bill origami on the cash register and compost bins gives Blue Kangaroo more quirk than Starbucks, but you'll still find a similar "working parent" crowd. A food-cart pod across the street makes up for the small menu. Best for solo study sessions, not groups.
Mocha: Spicy ($3.75).
Refills: Free on house coffee.
Wi-Fi speed: 10,325 kbps. 7901 SE 13th Ave. 6:30 am-6 pm Monday-Friday, 7 am-6 pm Saturday-Sunday.
Aliviar, Hollywood
Recently relocated Aliviar still has bare walls and stiff couches. The latte art didn't quite make up for the slow service, and the food menu is small, though there's popcorn next door at the Hollywood Theatre.
Mocha: Not sweet ($3.70).
Refills: First one free.
Wi-Fi speed: 7,338 kbps.
4128 NE Sandy Blvd. 6:30 am-7 pm Monday-Tuesday, 6:30 am-9 pm Wednesday-Friday, 8 am-9 pm Saturday, 8 am-7 pm Sunday.
Green Beans, Kerns
Green Beans' vegan-but-not-pretentiously-so atmosphere is as Portland as it gets. Veggie burritos—all under $6—make it a great price for students. There's seating for you and half your humanities lecture in the shabby side room straight out of That '70s Show.
Mocha: The sweetest ($3.70).
Refills: Free for large cups, 50 cents for small and medium.
Wi-Fi speed: 2,228 kbps.
2327 E Burnside St. 7 am-6 pm Monday-Friday, 8 am-6 pm Saturday-Sunday.
Three Friends, Buckman
Three Friends is a quiet, laid-back place to study, but with enough space to bring a group. This is where we would have felt most comfortable settling in for hours. There's good music at the right volume and plenty of broken-in couches.
Mocha: Sweet ($3.50).
Refills: 50 cents.
Wi-Fi speed: 8,756 kbps.
201 SE 12th Ave. 7 am-10 pm Monday-Friday, 8 am-10 pm Saturday, 9 am-10 pm Sunday.
Backspace, Old Town-Chinatown
Coffee shop by day, concert venue by night, Backspace is all ages, all the time. Great music, nachos and people-watching make it an easy place to spend your entire day, snacking on local pastries or nachos. It may be too loud and busy for serious studying, but it's a good space for holding meetings or just spending time out of the house.
Mocha: Sweet ($4).
Refills: None.
Wi-Fi speed: 12,002 kbps.
115 NW 5th Ave. 7 am-midnight Monday-Friday, 10 am-midnight Saturday-Sunday.
Vivace, Northwest District
Located in an old Victorian house, Vivace is laid-back and bright with plenty of food options. It's best for studying solo, as there isn't much room to spread out. Wi-Fi can be dodgy.
Mocha: Sweet ($3.75).
Refills: 50 cents on house coffee.
Wi-Fi speed: 4,089 kbps.
1400 NW 23rd Ave. 8 am-10 pm daily.
Fehrenbacher Hof, Goose Hollow
A Lincoln High School favorite, Hof has a great menu, friendly baristas and good music. Snack on pastries, sandwiches, milkshakes or some of the best mac 'n' cheese in the city. The first floor can be a little crowded and noisy, so head upstairs for a calmer atmosphere and larger tables.
Mocha: Sticky sweet ($3.50).
Refills: 50 cents.
Wi-Fi speed: 6,986 kbps.
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Chimp Attack Victim Charla Nash Reveals Her New Face on 'Today' [VIDEO]
It's been more than two years since Charla Nash was savagely attacked and mauled by a chimpanzee. Nash received terrible wounds at the hands of the 200-pound animal, which tore off her nose, eyelids and hands and she was forced to cover her face with a veil.
But Nash's recovery took a groundbreaking turn when she received a full face transplant in May. Her new face was revealed for the first time on 'Today' this morning.
Nash's brother and daughter told Ann Curry that she has a newfound sense of optimism since the transplant.
"It's just good to see the rapid progress and the happiness that wasn't there before. A new hope has been sparked and it's just so nice to see her ready to get at it again," said Nash's daughter Briana.
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Instead of Londonderry, new charter school settles on Manchester locationBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 29. 2014 10:11PM
The Founders Academy Chartered Public School has received applications to fill about half of its inaugural class this fall, while a deal to buy a building in Manchester should be finalized Friday, the school's chairman said Tuesday.
"Because of the ... delayed building search, we are delayed in the admissions process," said Thomas Frischknecht, a school co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees.
The school initially targeted Londonderry, but couldn't find a suitable site. It identified a building at 5 Perimeter Road that The Founders Academy Foundation, which wrote the school's charter, is buying for $1.5 million, he said.
Frischknecht, who also founded the foundation, explained that state law prohibits charter schools from taking on long-term debt in their initial years. He said the foundation will allow the school to locate in a building where it can expand over the years.
The school has received around 50 applications for grades six, seven and eight with hopes of educating 100 students this fall.
"If I have 101 applications, I have to have a lottery, but 100 will get in," he said.
Whether eighth grade will be taught this fall will depend on enrollment figures, he said.
At close to 60,000 square feet, the Manchester location will accommodate up to 650 students, which is the cap for the school's charter. The school hopes to grow by 100 students a year.
There are four new charter schools in New Hampshire scheduled to open later this year. The other schools opening are the Gate City Charter School for the Arts in Nashua (for kindergarten through grades four); Granite State Arts Academy: A Public Chartered School in Derry (for grades nine through 12); and Mountain Village Charter School in Plymouth (for grades one through three).
Come September, New Hampshire will have 22 charter schools, according to Michelle Gauthier, who works in the charter school office at the state Department of Education.
There were 2,097 students enrolled in public charter schools as of last October.
Founders Academy also marks the fourth charter school in Manchester.
Charter schools receive state adequacy funds to help run their schools: $3,749.15 per kindergartner and $5,490.80 per student in grades one through 12.
Upcoming information sessions for the Founders Academy will be held May 7 at West Community Branch Library in Manchester at 6:30 p.m.; May 12 at the downtown Manchester City Library at 7 p.m.; May 16 at the Kelley Library in Salem at 7 p.m. and May 20 at the Merrimack YMCA at 7 p.m.
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As I searched for a local shop I kept coming back to PMS. Even though I live in Southern Calif, I called Eric countless times, he was more then happy to educate me on the correct steps to take that worked withen my budget. PMS completed a 911 suspension swap, back dated my bumpers, did some body work and went through my 914 from front to back to make sure I was leaving there shop with a trouble free car. Now that I have my 914 mechanically and cosmetically updated my next step will be a 2.7 swap which will be completed by PMS.
Porsche Enthusiast
They are very professional; quick respond to all questions and emails, very clear communication, and excellent to work with very quick turnaround. I plan to refer others to them. Thanks!


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HB Arabians
Santa Ynez, California Get Directions
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 805-736-5366
Mobile: 805-291-7000
HB Arabians is located in Santa Ynez Valley, CA between Buellton and Lompoc. Horse pastures and vineyards are connected by palm tree bordered roads leading to one of the most beautiful barns in Santa Barbara County.
Owner: John Hilliard & Christine Bruce